State and Culture in Postcolonial Africa

Tejumola Olaniyan is Louise Durham Mead Professor of African Cultural Studies and English at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He is the author of Arrest the Music! Fela and His Rebel Art and Politics and African Diaspora and the Disciplines.

"For the African postcolonial state and Olaniyan and contributors, epistemological, theoretical, and pragmatic questions surrounding authority, ownership, and institutional forward progression should commence in the realm of culture. Curious readers inquiring the same should seek out this volume."—African Studies Review"An intellectual invitation to take seriously the various ways in which the postcolonial state in Africa and the realm of cultural production interact. . . the individual contributions are joyously anarchic."—Ebenezer Obadare, author of Humor, Silence, and Civil Society in Nigeria"From garrison architecture to unruly pedestrians and taxi drivers performing the improvisational choreography of chaotic urban traffic, from Nollywood to philosophical musings on the unfulfilled promises of modernity, from soccer to revolutionary theatre, this volume makes a compelling case for the relevance of cultural studies in the understanding of the postcolonial African state."—Cilas Kemedjio, author of The Humanitarian Misunderstanding: Remembering Globalization

• Introduction1. Culture and the Study of Politics in Post-Colonial AfricaPatrick Chabal2. Joined at the Hip: African Literature and Africa's Body-PoliticNiyi Osundare3. Philosophy and the State in Postcolonial AfricaOlúfémi Táíwò4. Soccer and the State: The Politics and Morality of Daily Life Michael G. Schatzberg5. The Enchanted History of Nigerian State TelevisionMatthew H. Brown6. "Performing like there's no tomorrow": Theatre, War and Social Vulnerability in MozambiqueLuís Madureira7. Fissures of Trespass: Women as Agents of Transgression Amidst National DisenchantmentNévine El Nossery8. The Sudanese Nation and Its Fragments: Tayeb Salih's Literary ArchaeologySofia Samatar9. The African Postcolonial Predicament: A Logic of Revenge, Prison Poetry, and Becoming HumanKen Walibora Waliaula10. "Jesus Christ Executive Producer": Pentecostal Parapolitics in Nollywood FilmsAkin Adesokan11. Hi-fi Sociality, Lo-fi Sound: Affect and Precarity in an Independent South African Recording StudioLouise Meintjes12. Talibé Trafficking: The Transformation of Koranic Teaching in SenegalLark Porter13. Tradition of Resistance in Nigeria's Print Media: The Example of TheNEWSKunle Ajibade14. Improvisational Characteristics of an Urban Fragment: Oxford St., AccraAto Quayson15. Gaining Ground: Squatters and the Right to the CityAnne-Maria Makhulu16. African Urban Garrison Architecture: Property, Armed Robbery, Para-CapitalismTejumola OlaniyanIndex